PA GOP consults the Hillary Clinton playbook

The Pennsylvania GOP is out with a new web video that attempts to link Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf to President Barack Obama's infamous "guns or religion" comment, made during the 2008 Democratic primary.

In 2008, Obama was leading the national Democratic primary, but trailing Hillary Clinton badly in Pennsylvania. Donors wanted to know why he couldn't close the deal with Pennsylvania's blue collar electorate.

That's when Obama said this: "It's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

The GOP compares the Obama remarks to a joke Wolf made on the stump at Ag Progress Days last week. Speaking in public to the crowd of people he's joking with, Wolf explains that he wasn't just shaking hands and mingling with them because he's a nice guy. "I was looking for weapons," he quips.

The joke, one of a series of cracks from Wolf, elicited laughs from the audience.

In the GOP ad, it's a cue for sinister music and this text: "Looking for weapons? We know who that sounds like."

Then the kicker: pictures of Obama and Wolf and text that says "Tom Wolf, Barack Obama, looking down their noses...for your guns."